This post will provide screenshots of the current Wikipedia page of the White Helmets and juxtapose those screenshots with images and links taken from the White Helmets own Facebook accounts. The purpose of this post is to highlight the hypocrisy of mainstream media outlets that have covered for the White Helmets, as well as to expose the manner in which Wikipedia is utilized to disseminate misinformation to the public. This post also serves to expose the fake ‘fact-checking’ organization Snopes as a misinformation conduit. This post will also include links to over 20 other highly revealing posts featuring over 400 images of White Helmets members (screen captured from their own Facebook accounts with links provided to the accounts), including posts that clearly show that the White Helmets recent Oscar nominated and awarded documentaries are simply shameful intentionally deceptive propaganda foisted upon the public. This massive trove of verifiable information is provided in an easily researchable manner and juxtaposed with the current (as of May 17, 2018) Wikipedia page on the White Helmets.

For comparison, in this first portion of the post I will provide a link to a post that I put together in May 2017 highlighting approximately 100 images from the White Helmets own Facebook accounts proving that they post for, in support of, and on behalf of terrorist groups, including al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) and ISIS (terrorist groups very well-known to conduct horrific, barbaric atrocities). Links to their own Facebook accounts are provided at the foot of the attached post.

Here are some image examples from the linked post that prove that they post on behalf of terrorist groups. Thus, proving that the Wikipedia page misrepresents the fact that only a few White Helmets have committed crimes and are associated with nefarious groups.

Example 1 –

Example 2 from linked post-

Example 3 from linked post –

NoteNote that image above the White Helmet shares an image of an al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) flag.

Example 4 –

You get the idea…….there are over a dozen examples at that post linked above, plus the links to their own Facebook accounts where they posted the images.

Now I will provide another screenshot of the current Wikipedia page which states there is a Russian and alt-right disinformation campaign against the White Helmets. (Caveat: I have no political affiliation and lean neither left nor right.) Note also that the first Wikipedia screenshot provided above labels those who accuse the White Helmets of terrorist related activities as conspiracy theorists.

This 2nd link also provides over one dozen White Helmets Facebook pages with links and images proving, once again, that they post in support of, on behalf of and in collusion with terrorist groups, including al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) and ISIS.

Once again I will provide a few examples and the many others can be easily verified at the attached link.

Example 1 –

Example 2 –

Note that in the image above the White Helmet swears to protect his fellow Mujahideen (Islamic jihadists).

Example 3-

Numerous other examples are provided at the link above.

Yet Wikipedia would have us believe that the White Helmets are simply humanitarian rescuers of small children and deserving of Nobel Peace prizes and Oscar Academy Awards.

Alas, theres much more…..much, much more…..The link below shows over a dozen occasions where the White Helmets are directly operating alongside armed terrorist groups in Syria. It also features the Saudi cleric leader of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) stating on record that the White Helmets (civil defence) are mujahideen (Islamic jihadists). Additionally, it features videos of the White Helmets lead propaganda disseminator Hadi Abadallah working alongside numerous radical Islamic terrorist groups. It seems that the Wikipedia crew have overlooked all this video evidence and instead have decided to focus on smearing the names of investigative researchers and journalists who have exposed this horrific treachery.

Here are just 3 video examples from the above link of White Helmets operating alongside terrorists.

The Saudi cleric they are meeting in the video directly above is Abdullah al-Muhaysini the leader of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria). Note that the video was located online, cached and reuploaded by Vanessa Beesley who has done a great service for humanity by exposing the White Helmets terrorists and FSA war crimes over the past 5 years. For doing such, she has been labeled and smeared by various groups and individuals who are cited as legitimate Snopes ‘fact-checked’ truth-tellers according to the Wikipedia page. These media organizations and individuals defending the White Helmets and conducting obfuscation and mislabeling of Vanesss Beeley and others include Olivia Solon who works for The Guardian, Bethania Palma Markus who works for Snopes, Scott Lucas who operates the EAWorldview website, Patrick Hilsman of PulseMedia, Amanda Ericsson of the Washington Post, Elliot Higgins of Bellingcat, amongst others. Alas, they are too many to name and links to their articles covering for the White Helmets can obviously be found at the Wikipedia page which is full of misinformation about the White Helmet terrorists.

In addition to the images from the White Helmets own Facebook accounts there are also numerous images from the “Last Men in Aleppo” movie directors accounts. That link is provided below, and once again proves that these individuals who have been promoted by Hollywood and the US mainstream media also post in support of, on behalf of, and in collusion with terrorist groups operating in Syria. Links to all their Facebook accounts can be found at the conclusion of the linked post.

Note that all the ‘directors’ of “The Last Men in Aleppo” documentary (which was nominated by Hollywoods Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science for an Oscar Award post in support of the FSA which is comprised of terrorist groups, as even proven by the Guardian UK (now compromised) in an article revealing such in May 2013.

Note also that the city of Aleppo is now, as of May 2018, fully liberated by Russian and Syrian Armed Forces, and has been repatriated by legitimate Syrian citizens after the “Last Men in Aleppo’s” terrorists were defeated and removed in December 2016. The Last Men in Aleppo are now apparently moving on to become “The Last Terrorists in Idlib”.

Note that by 2018 it is a well-established fact that the FSA is entirely comprised of terrorist groups, and as of May 2018 the majority of ISIS, al-Nusra Front and other terror groups in Syria have been defeated by Syrian, Russian and Iranian Armed Forces. This important information is also left out of the western, Israeli and Gulf State media ‘reporting’ of the people (listed above) who provide ‘verifiable fact-checked facts’ for the Wikipedia page on the White Helmets.

In juxtaposition, this next screen shot from the Wikipedia page of the White Helmets provides information on the operations of the White Helmets. It is obviously misleading and below I will present evidence as to why.

Over the span of the last few years the true terrorist nature of the White Helmets has been exposed thoroughly by myself and others. The following links provide numerous examples of extensive evidence of the White Helmets real nefarious nature, particularly when it comes to false flag chemical attacks.

Thus, a simply look through all the extensive evidentiary material provided in the links above fully reveals the true operational nature of the White Helmets. It is murderous. The operations they conduct are not what the Wikipedia page leads readers to believe.

1) The links show they are involved in false flag attacks and provide substantial mainstream media evidence proving such (evidence which is, incidentally, not provided at the Wikipedia page). Intentional omission of verifiable factual material and information also equates to misleading propaganda.

2) The links clearly show numerous members of the White Helmets, including their lead propaganda disseminators are involved in promoting terrorist related activities.

3) Images and timeframes at the links clearly show the White Helmets boarding buses with terror groups with weapons during evacuations from a number of towns and cities after their liberation by Syrian, Russian and Iranian Armed Forces.

4) The links also provide examples of western media promoting and exploiting children in conjunction with the White Helmets and other nefarious ruse instigators conducting operations in Syria.

To understand all this subversive activity, I highly recommend people watch the video “Tapestry of Terror” which explains the way the entire charade is conducted and used by western media, Gulf State and Israeli media in order to provide intentionally misleading propaganda to public viewing audiences.

Alas, the Wikipedia page for the White Helmets would tell you all I state and provide above is a vast conspiracy theory conducted by a Russian troll. Look at the massive amount of links and media sources that have been put together to back up the claim that the White Helmets are simply good guys saving the lives of innocent children.

Who could argue with all those links, right? Only a ‘conspiracy theorist’, ‘Russian troll’ or ‘Assad apologist’ could attempt to paint these ‘heroic rescuers’ as bad guys. Yet, a conspiracy analyst such as myself doesn’t really have to lift a finger to invalidate all of that material provided at the Wikipedia page. The White Helmets have completed this task of invalidation themselves. After all, they are the ones that uploaded all the images and videos to their Facebook pages and onto the Internet. They did it, not me. They uploaded images and videos which prove they are affiliated with terrorist groups and working directly alongside them. Hence the reason, I suppose, that the Wikipedia page does not include the White Helmets Facebook pages aspect to this subversive story. Heck, it doesn’t even delve into the FSA aspect. To do such would be to admit that the FSA is comprised of terrorist groups. Thus, certain subjects are intentionally kept off the table so the public remains unaware of what has really happened. This deliberate omission of information is a form of propaganda also. One that the people controlling the White Helmets Wikipedia page must be very well-aware of. Alas, to add these Clarity of Signal links or even attempt to alter that page leads to immediate censoring and taking down of the presented material by the Wikipedia page’s handlers.

Recently, after the smear articles came out against those diligent good citizens exposing the White Helmets as terrorists, a number of revisions were made to the Wikipedia page (adding the smear content), and other Wikipedia pages were set up in order to establish a false narrative against the main people exposing the White Helmets. This was conducted using MSM smear articles as sources. Thus, painting a negative picture of the individuals through the use of these untrue smear articles. In a sense, the people doing this are creating (manufacturing) false information that they then use establish a Wikipedia page and smear campaign. It is quite evil in its very nature and highlights what happens to people who dare to question nefarious and quite dubious establishment narratives.

The aforementioned MSM smear articles, full of false information, are then used as a ‘reliable’ source by Snopes, Factcheck.org and others, who are then utilized and promoted as reliable ‘fact-checkers’ by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia and other massive Internet organizations (working in collusion with the government) to conduct total information control over what the general public is allowed to see and therefore come to believe. Simply put, gaslighting is taking place. Reality is being kept from the eyes of the public and falsely shaped by deceptive individuals, organizations, government entities who intentionally seek to hide the truth and change the general public’s perceptions of reality. Therefore, this means that the general public are also victims in this massive deceptive agenda.

Link to article explaining the situation with Wikipedia editing against anti-war personalities.

This person has taken to editing the White Helmets page and creating misleading pages on Professor Piers Robinson, Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, Professor Tim Hayward, George Galloway and even UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The controversy has even attracted the attention of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who chimed in a discussion on the subject but then went quiet in regards to it.

The Wikipedia pages of @Tim_Hayward_ , @PiersRobinson1 and @McCormack_Tara were set up the same day or day after they were attacked by The Times (and tweeted by Oliver Kamm, incidentally). They were undoubtedly set up to discredit. It's shameful that you won't look into it.

Alas, the Wikipedia controversy related to the White Helmets grows even larger due to this manipulation against those that dare to expose the White Helmets as terrorists, and particularly so now that Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia has chimed in and done nothing to stop the lies and smears.

Now lets get back to those White Helmets Facebook pages. Here’s another post I put together using their own uploaded Facebook accounts images. There are 4 large posts like this in total. Each has over a dozen White Helmets Facebook accounts. Plus I made one large video post. A few examples from this post are provided below:

Dozens of additional images are at the link above proving the White Helmets are indeed terrorists. My personal research into the White Helmets ruse began after reading the accounts of Vanessa Beeley who has helped wake the world up to this massive deceptive ruse that is being orchestrated by the establishment world ‘leaders’ and the global elite against the unaware public. For doing this service for humanity Vanessa truly deserves a medal, instead she is being smeared across Wikipedia and the mainstream media which is complicit in the White Helmets terrorist deception and cover-up. This is what telling the truth will get you in 2018.

It is noticeable that my Clarity of Signal site is not often featured in MSM articles about so called ‘misinformation agents’ that portray the White Helmets as terrorists. This is likely because to do such would lead to the public actually seeing the White Helmets own Facebook accounts and thereby negate the misleading points the smear agents would attempt to make against me. Thus, instead, Clarity of Signal is simply labeled as a conspiracy site and the focus of the smear campaign by the White Helmets protectors is directed upon people like Vanessa Beeley, Tim Hayward, Eva Bartlett and Piers Robinson. Alas, the list of White Helmets exposers is continually growing and the Atlantic Council and mainstream media are now having trouble keeping all their rabbits under one hat. George Galloway, Peter Hitchens, Ben Swann, Craig Murray, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore and numerous other well respected media and political figures on both sides of the political aisle have been exposing the White Helmets as the terrorists that they really are.

The following posts provide examples of how the White Helmets protectors have recently made glaring mistakes in their attempts to aid in the White Helmets coverup.

More information on the role that fake ‘fact-checking’ outfit Snopes and their employee Bethania Palma Markus plays in all this is at the following link. This post also points out the actions of other lead propaganda disseminators such as Elliot Higgins, Michael Weiss and Mouaz Moustafa, as well as the role that John McCain has played in aiding/financing and meeting with the terrorist comprised FSA.

Finally, I will add this large post that links all this madness together so the larger picture can be seen in its entirety. Included here is my past two years work helping to expose this terrorist propaganda grand charade.

In conclusion, what is presented above is a large amount of verifiable links and images proving the White Helmets are indeed terrorists (as proven by their own Facebook pages), and also highlighting many of the individuals that are carrying out the current deceptive mass propaganda dissemination upon the American and global public. They all play various supportive roles when it comes to the ongoing wars and deceptive propaganda dissemination. Many of these propaganda disseminators are cited in the Wikipedia referenced articles.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The enemy is domestic, its within. It is not Russia. The Deep State and their media blaming Russia for everything is simply distraction. However, the enemy of the American people is indeed a foreign nation that has infiltrated domestically. Thus, the reason that nation projects its crimes onto Russia. I don’t need to state the name. You already know it. Stating it these days can lead to one being censored and moved down in the Internet algorithmic search rankings. I believe that that same nations agents in the US media are intentionally sowing divisiveness onto the American people in order to distract from their crimes. What they are doing and saying in regards to Russia is simply psychological projection, accusing their enemy of that which they themselves are doing. All this is being conducted to mask their grand theft, war crimes and support for terrorist groups.

Caveat: All information above, and my opinion derived from such, was acquired through postings conducted online by the individuals mentioned within the related material, as well as other researchers. I leave it up to diligent citizens to judge for themselves the validity of the aforementioned material and my opinions in regards to such, as is their right. This information is posted as a public service. Sometimes true patriotism requires dissent and revealing that which the PTB would prefer remain in the shadows. I subscribe to the philosophy of USMC General Smedley Butler and believe war is a racket, a rich man’s trick. I am a Marine Corps vet (1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Mar Div) who loves America and hopes to help save lives of innocent people in affected countries and my brothers and sisters in the Armed Forces during this time of wars of deception and false flags (White Helmets). I believe my posts here at Steemit and my Clarity of Signal WordPress site are very important for humanity right now and recommend people get red pilled and research these issues thoroughly themselves.

One more just for those who are still on the fence about this whole murderous regime change charade.

Now who is up for attempting to edit the White Helmets Wikipedia page? Peace to you and your family as you become aware of these disturbing issues. I sympathize with those just now waking up to it. I know it is disturbing subject matter and affects ones psyche quite deeply. Only through revealing the truth can we make the world a better place for ourselves and our children. Peace to you.

The videos below shows over a dozen occasions where the White Helmets are directly operating alongside armed terrorist groups in Syria. It also features the Saudi cleric leader of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) stating on record that the White Helmets (civil defence) are mujahideen (Islamic jihadists). Additionally, it features videos of the White Helmets lead propaganda disseminator Hadi Abadallah working alongside numerous radical Islamic terrorist groups. At the conclusion of the post, some of the best western voices reveal the truth about the US and UK support for the FSA terrorists in Syria.

Direct collusion……

The two videos directly above can also now both be found at the following links:

WHITE HELMETS WITH TERRORIST MUHAYSINI IN HAMA (Short Version) -Ahrar Al Sham are included in the Fatah Al Sham (Army of Conquest) alongside Nusra Front and led by child-suicide-bomber-trainer, Riyadh educated Sheikh Abdullah Muhaysini. The following short clip is taken from a video filmed in the Hama countryside earlier this year, featuring Fatah Al Sham fighters, White Helmets and Muhaysini welcoming terrorists from Daraya.

John Cantle who was captured by ISIS and held in Islamic State territory is shown on video with White Helmets in the background.

White Helmets meeting held at FSA HQ directly links them to Free Syrian Army which is comprised of dozens of terrorist groups and has been filmed on camera on numerous occasions conducting atrocities and working directly in conjunction with al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) terrorists.

Video directly above showing White Helmets meeting at FSA headquarters has been removed from You Tube. A cached version of the exact same video can be found here:

Dr Marcus Papadopoulos reveals the truth about the White Helmets on the BBC

US Congressional Representative Tulsi Gabbard conducts interview with Mumina, a victim of the FSA who beheaded members of her family.

Tyranny Unmasked Uncovers the true face of the White Helmets

White Helmets filmed colluding with al- Nusra terrorist’s disposing of corpses in shovel of a tractor in 2015.

Final video shows White Helmets attending an August 2016 rally led by Abdullah al-Muhaysini the Saudi cleric leader of al-Nusra Front terrorist group (al-Qaeda in Syria).

New video has been uploaded that feature a White Helmets member participating in unloading a truck filled with beheaded Syrian soldiers. Shown below are two videos of the truck. The 1st video is from Twitter and shows a blue shirted White Helmet member with the group logo on the back unloading beheaded corpses. The 2nd video shows the same truck at the time of the loading of the bodies.

White Helmets Film Themselves Participating in Beheading of Syrian Soldiers

Impartial and humanitarian White Helmets participating in the beheading and throwing of Syrian soldiers bodies at a dumpster in Daraa today: pic.twitter.com/2UvEbhUu9g

Video featuring over 10 additional occasions where the White Helmets are caught on camera operating alongside terrorists in al-Nusra Front held areas.

When viewing the material above, please keep in mind that western media and government organizations have the ability to conduct the same type of research that I have conducted in regards to the White Helmet terrorists. With their infinite resources and operational capability they could have conducted a proper investigation from the very beginning of this deceptive ruse that has been enacted upon the unaware people of the world. Alas, they have no desire to do such because, quite simply put, they are, and always have been, in bed with the terrorists. Their goal is to use the terrorists for regime change and to deceive the people of the world into following a deceptive, murderous path that is based entirely upon intentional misleading propaganda that serves the interest of a select few global elitists that constantly enrich themselves through endless war, killing, weapons sales, MIC contracts, surveillance controls, insider trading, imperialism, and chaos. Think please…..think clearly. The people that do this are the worst of humanity. They are the dregs of society. They are cloaked in robes. They are the rulers of the world……..and they know their time is short. Wake up. Wake up your friends and neighbors. The time is now to expose this war and madness. The time is now to expose that the war on terror is actually a war against all humanity. It is a ruse carried out by the elitist Powers That Be to blind, enslave and control the people of the world. The corrupt mainstream media have been part and parcel of this deception, as have western and Gulf State leaders, along with Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Japan and others. Think clearly moving forward. The censorship and propaganda are only going to get worse from here on out. Exposing the truth is the quickest way to making the world a better place. Do not prolong your own suffering, nor that of your children and future generations. Put aside your political team bias/status and help get the word out for the sake of ALL humanity.

Final video includes a large compilation of lead White Helmets propaganda disseminator

Hadi Abdallah as he works alongside ISIS, al-Qaeda and the White Helmets.

Link to video from screenshot above from White Helmets Exposed on Twitter:

The following videos highlight the actions of Hadi Abdallah who is a well known propaganda disseminator for the FSA which is comprised of numerous terrorist groups operating in Syria, including al-Nusra Front, Jabrat al-Nusra and Nour al-Zinki. All of these groups are well known for conducting horrific war crimes and atrocities, including beheadings. Hadi Abdallah has been filmed on multiple occasions congratulating, hugging and working alongside these murderous terrorist groups.

It is notable that he was also one of the first responding ‘reporters’ to the chemical weapons massacre in Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017 which is under scrutiny for being a likely false flag event due to the fact that the White Helmet responders did not use hazmat protective gear when handling affected people.

A large amount of photo and video evidence points to the fact that Hadi Abdallah is much more than just simply a reporter. Instead, he appears to act as the lead propaganda disseminator for the terrorist groups operating in Syria. This is also remarkable due to the fact that the French organization “Reporters Without Borders” (RSF) awarded and congratulated him with the Press Freedom Prize on November 7, 2016. The photos and videos below show the true nature of Hadi Abdallah as he works alongside the terrorist groups in Syria and operates exclusively in terrorist held-areas that are controlled by the jihadist groups attempting to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government.

The videos below highlight Hadi Abdallah’s ‘reporting’ activities. In the first video he is responding to the Syrian gas attack in Idlib on April 4, 2017 and providing information for western and Gulf State media outlets related to the event.

In the 2nd video he is congratulating, hugging and working alongside terrorist groups in Syria. The fact that he praises, kisses, hugs and even cries tears of joy with these armed terrorist groups should provide serious cause for concern for western governments, however, instead he has actually recently received accolades from the U.S. State Department Syria for his work providing propaganda for terrorists as proven by the links and images below.

The videos below highlight Hadi Abdallah working directly with terrorist groups in Syria. In the first they are digging tunnels for warfare, while in the 2nd they are conducting an assault on an outpost.

Clips of any videos that are missing from this post/deleted by You Tube can be found at the following link:

This award also led to him receiving accolades on Twitter from the U.S. Embassy Syria.

The RSF “Reporters Without Borders” article states that he was kidnapped by the al-Nusra Front terrorist group, however, nothing could be further from the truth, as he has been photographed proudly standing side by side joining arms with Abdullah al-Muhaysini the Saudi cleric leader of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda) in Syria. Thus, it is astonishing that he was provided these awards and accolades by organizations and countries that have been attacked on numerous occasions by the very same terrorist groups he works in conjunction with.

In regards to the chemical massacre on April 4th, 2017, and the White Helmet first responders who worked alongside Hadi Abdallah, it is notable that Abdullah al-Muhaysini has previously declared that the White Helmets (who attended the Idlib chemical massacre) are mujahideen (Islamic jihadists).

This image shows the real FSA which is made up of dozens of Islamic jihadist groups…..

This is the real White Helmets showing their true FSA affiliation….

FSA = al-Nusra/ISIS

Back to Hadi and the April 4th chemical massacre……….Its seems quite a lucky coincidence that he happened to be in that particular location to film the White Helmets ‘responding’ to the massacre.

Alas, he’s just a good guy……thats what good guys do, especially when they’ve been given Press Freedom Prizes and accolade’s from esteemed governments and institutions. They would never mislead the public…….

As far as the chemical massacre goes……..nothing to see here………nothing at all.

Hadi Abdallah just happened to luckily be there…..

Note the poor acting. bad editing, constant mention of sarin, combined with over-play on the use of children in the following interview where al-Nusra Front ‘reporter’ Hadi Abadallah acts emotionally concerned for the man portraying a father who has lost his family.

The video above has now been removed from You Tube. I located another version of the same video here:

Live Leak video below sums up Hadi Abadallah as he hangs out with ISIS and a number of Syrian soldiers corpses….

The following videos from the Jimmy Dore and Newsboy Channels explain the most probable reasons for the Idlib chemical massacre……..simply put, it was a false flag attack.

Below are videos of Hadi Abadallah and his western and Gulf State funded terrorist colleagues. Note also that these terrorists channels are all over You Tube and easy to find, yet Google/You Tube/ The US government does nothing to take them down to help stop the spread of radical Islamic terrorism. As of December 2017 these channels are still being given a completely free pass, even after the implementation of the Deep State and governments censorship agenda against dissenting and revealing political opinions in western countries. As shown in other CoS posts, the leader of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) Abdullah al-Muhaysini still has a number of You Tube channels active and he has never been censored (to the best of my knowledge), even though his channels are incredibly easy to find simply by searching under his name.

Here Hadi Abadallah cheers on the FSA terrorist factions:

Final video shows the White Helmets with the leader of al-Nusra Front in Syria, Abdullah al-Muhaysini. Note Syrian Red Crescent (Red Cross) vans as the White Helmets celebrate with this terrorist. These are the western and gulf State funded ‘heros’ of the Syrian chemical weapons attack that took place on April 4th, 2017. They are also the first responders to the bus attack that killed 127 women and children on April 15th, 2017. These are Hadi Abadallah’s partners.

New addition:

Hadi and The White Helmets – Hero’s by Day, Terrorists by Night. Paid for with US and UK taxpayer money. The al-Qaeda in Syria scam. Hadi Abadallah, the White Helmets PR man.

Abdallah al-Muhaysini, a Pivotal Figure in the Islamist terrorist attacks on Syria

Abdallah al-Muhaysini came to Syria in 2013 to partake in the western orchestrated overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. He presents a unique case of the outsized role a single person can play in the lawless world of the so called Syrian rebellion. He has positioned himself at the center of radical jihadist politics, fund raising, and legal opinion.

Al-Muhaysini hails from the al-Qassim region in Saudi Arabia. Prior to his arrival to Syria, he completed his MA and PhD studies in Islamic Jurisprudence in the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, with a dissertation on “The Treatment of Prisoners of War in Islamic Jurisprudence.” A self-professed Salafi jihadist scholar, al-Muhaysini is often seen on the battlefields of northern Syria together with various Islamist factions, prominent among whom are Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), in addition to other factions affiliated with the Jaish al-Fateh coalition. He has set up institutions that provide military and financial aid to jihadist groups, and runs a proselytization (Dawah) center (named “The Jihad’s Callers Center“) in Idlib Province.

Al-Mushaysini holds the title General Judge of Jaish al-Fateh. He is highly revered in the jihadi-Salafi landscape (notwithstanding Islamic State adherents), embracing a leading role in the warfare – most recently in the Jabha al-Nusra takeover, together with the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) of the Abu al-Dhuhur Air Base and in the Jaish al-Fatah battles for control over al-Fuah this month (September 2015). During clashes in the last year, he was documented delivering inflammatory speeches to the troops and bestowing religious blessing upon suicide bombers before embarking on their missions.

Orient News TV, based in UAE, and broadcasts to Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

Orient News TV aims to address Syrian viewers in specific and the Arab world in general, with cultural and entertainment programming as well as information and news. Orient TV opened in Damascus in February 2009, employing 149 Syrians. However the government soon had doubts about having granted a license to Orient TV, and in July 2009 Syrian security forces raided Orient TV’s offices. As a consequence Orient TV moved to Dubai. The station began broadcasting outside of Syria with coverage of the first civil courts established in Idlib province.

Ownership

Ghassan Aboud the founder, owner of Orient Media Network

The project’s founder and owner is Syrian business man Mohammad Ghassan Aboud, born in 1967. He holds a bachelor’s degree in media from Damascus University in 1991. He left Syria for the United Arab Emirates at the beginning of the 1990s, and worked in public relations in the Abu Dhabi Engineers Association Branch, and was then Media Officer in the Emirates Equestrian Racing Federation.

Leading Saudi cleric preaching jihad –

Leading al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda) in Syria into battle: Note Red Crescent (Red Cross) bag at the 47 second mark.

Certain aid groups have been filmed on occasion working alongside the terrorists and proxy groups designed as NGO’s, examples here:

The UK/US/Saudi/Soros financed White Helmets are seen in the above video operating side by side with radical Islamic jihadists in East Aleppo, Syria. UK media outlets such as the Guardian, the Independent, the BBC and ITV4 were recently pushing for these ‘White Helmet’ (read terrorists) to receive a Nobel Peace prize. This shows you how far and how low the UK media has stooped in their ‘reporting’. These media outlets and this group are exploiting children to place on their front pages to fool the public while they nefariously support terrorism.

In August 2016 CNN tried rebranding al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda) and even gave them air time to explain their name change……..gotta love that CNN ‘reporting’!

Al Qaeda militants in Syria parade captured regime helicopter airman on video and demand radical cleric is released
Airman was seen in video released by Al Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra
Notorious militant Abdullah al-Muhaysini stands over him wielding a knife
Jihadi calls for the release of another Al Qaeda extremist, Mus’ab as-Suri
Airman was among at least four people captured near Idlib yesterday

To sum up, what we have here is a Saudi/US backed Islamic cleric who leads the Islamic terrorist groups in Syria against the Syrian government. He is the leader of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) and other affiliated groups. Note that all the groups are intertwined and he is the main leader of all of them. This is left out of the US media narrative, and obscured by the US State Department, as is the fact that he hails from Saudi Arabia’s most prominent university and is a widely promoted cleric there.

The videos above clearly show him recruiting ISIS fighters to join his army. He is regularly featured on the UAE Dubai’s Orient TV network, and CNN recently provided his terrorist group air time to explain their name change. He uses his provided airtime in the Gulf States to solicit funds for his Islamic fatwa/jihad in Syria. Orient TV in Dubai openly facilitates this propaganda and declares him to be a freedom fighter against the infidels (namely Christians and Allawites in Syria).

There are numerous instances on camera of the Red Crescent and the White Helmets working side by side with the terrorist groups he commands. The White Helmets are a fake NGO terrorist front group posing as humanitarians and receiving extensive pro-White Helmet media coverage in the US, UK, Europe, Canada and Australia/New Zealand. They were trained by the Red Cross in 2013 as proven by the links above. What we are looking at here is one of the greatest lies ever told and its all easily provable. The western Powers That Be and the Middle Eastern Gulf States are funding and promoting the terrorists in the Middle East. The leader of which, one Abdallah al-Muhaysini is on camera in the videos above openly soliciting ISIS fighters to join him. Thats a story you will not see in any US media outlet.

Exclusive: Buried deep inside Saturday’s New York Times was a grudging acknowledgement that the U.S.-armed “moderate” rebels in Syria are using their U.S. firepower to back an Al Qaeda offensive, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry

A curious aspect of the Syrian conflict – a rebellion sponsored largely by the United States and its Gulf state allies – is the disappearance in much of the American mainstream news media of references to the prominent role played by Al Qaeda in seeking to overthrow the secular Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.

There’s much said in the U.S. press about ISIS, the former “Al Qaeda in Iraq” which splintered off several years ago, but Al Qaeda’s central role in commanding Syria’s “moderate” rebels in Aleppo and elsewhere is the almost unspoken reality of the Syrian war. Even in the U.S. presidential debates, the arguing between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton has been almost exclusively about ISIS, not Al Qaeda.

For instance, the conflict in Aleppo between Syrian government forces and rebels operating primarily under Al Qaeda’s command is treated in the Western media as simply a case of the barbaric Assad and his evil Russian ally Vladimir Putin mercilessly bombing what is portrayed as the east Aleppo equivalent of Disney World, a place where innocent children and their families peacefully congregate until they are targeted for death by the Assad-Putin war-crime family.

The photos sent out to the world by skillful rebel propagandists are almost always of wounded children being cared for by the “White Helmet” rebel civil defense corps, which has come under growing criticism for serving as a public-relations arm of Al Qaeda and other insurgents. (There also are allegations that some of the most notable images have been staged, like a fake war scene from the 1997 dark comedy, “Wag the Dog.”)

Finally on November 10th, 2016 (The day after the US election) Muhaysini has been designated a terrorist. This BS is unforgivable as the Obama admin knew all along what this bastard was up to.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today to disrupt al-Nusrah Front’s military, recruitment, and financing operations. Specifically, OFAC designated four key al-Nusrah Front leaders – Abdallah Muhammad Bin-Sulayman al-Muhaysini, Jamal Husayn Zayniyah, Abdul Jashari, and Ashraf Ahmad Fari al-Allak – pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of these designated individuals subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.

These designations were taken in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, which today named Jabhat Fath al Sham as an alias of al-Nusrah Front – al-Qa’ida’s affiliate in Syria.

“From recruiting fighters to raising funds, these sanctioned individuals are responsible for providing key financial and logistical support to al-Nusrah Front,” said John E. Smith, Acting OFAC Director. “Treasury will continue to target al-Nusrah Front’s financial networks and choke off their access to the international financial system.”

Abdallah Muhammad Bin-Sulayman al-Muhaysini

Abdallah Muhammad Bin-Sulayman al-Muhaysini was designated for acting for or on behalf of, and providing support and services to or in support of, al-Nusrah Front.

As of late 2015, al-Muhaysini was an accepted member of al-Nusrah Front’s inner leadership circle. As of July 2015, Abdallah al-Muhaysini served as al-Nusrah Front’s religious advisor and represented al-Nusrah Front in an Idlib Province, Syria, military operations room. He has been involved in recruiting fighters to join al-Nusrah Front and helping to form a new al-Nusrah Front “state” in northern Syria. In April 2016, Muhaysini launched a campaign to recruit 3,000 child and teenage soldiers across northern Syria for al-Nusrah Front.

Al-Muhaysini has played a crucial role in providing financial aid to al-Nusrah Front. Between 2013 and 2015, al-Muhaysini raised millions of dollars to support al-Nusrah Front governance efforts in Idlib Province, Syria. As of early October 2015, al-Muhaysini had set up institutions providing financial aid to terrorist groups, including a highly successful campaign that he claimed had secured $5 million in donations to arm fighters.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand current and future U.S., EU and NATO policy. Over ten years ago the former National Security Advisor gave a graphic description of the imperatives of imperial geopolitics. He argued that the U.S.A.’s position of supremacy should be preserved under all circumstances. To this end NATO, acting as a “bridgehead” of the U.S.A., should expand into Eurasia and take control of geostrategically important regions so as to prevent Russia’s resurgence as a powerful political force.

Brzezinski had in mind two countries or regions in particular: “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.” “However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”1 Brzezinski argued further that there was an imperative need to gain control of the southern Caucasus, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, on Russia’s southern flank. The past master of U.S. geopolitics set out the aim and purpose of NATO policy with impressive clarity: “The United States and the NATO countries – while sparing Russia’s self-esteem to the extent possible, but nevertheless firmly and consistently – are destroying the geopolitical foundations which could, at least in theory, allow Russia to hope to acquire the status as the number two power in world politics that belonged to the Soviet Union.

In the years that followed, these words were systematically put into political practice with NATO taking its eastward expansion right up to Moscow’s borders. Furthermore, active Western support for the “colourful revolutions” in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) led to the sitting pro-Russian or neutral governments and presidents being ousted by pro-Western candidates.3 Russia regarded NATO’s policy as crossing the “red line”. As the war between Russia and Georgia in the summer of 2008 showed, Russia is no longer prepared to stand idly by in the face of further attempts at expansion. Nevertheless, the Western military alliance is doggedly pursuing its escalation policy, in which Ukraine and Georgia are now being offered NATO membership as a means of safeguarding the “successes” that have been scored. U.S. President Barack Obama is also in favour of these two countries joining NATO.4 The announcement that Michael McFaul, a hardliner on policy towards Moscow, is to be appointed senior director for Russian affairs at the National Security Council gives little cause for hope that Washington under its new president will abandon its aggressive, anti-Russian policy. This amounts to tacit acceptance that the New Cold War between NATO and Russia, invoked so frequently of late, will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Ukraine: “On someone else’s arse”

Even now, the approach to Ukraine is evidently still determined by Brzezinski’s recipes from the devil’s workshop of geopolitics. NATO accession and Europe’s energy supply are issues that are closely intertwined. Writing in Handelsblatt, Peter Zeihan from Strategic Forecast, the think-tank often referred to as the “shadow CIA”, described the complex geopolitical situation as follows: “On the one hand, the ‘orange’ revolution of 2004 led to the installation of a Ukrainian government hostile to Russia’s objectives. President Viktor Yushchenko would like to integrate his country into the European Union and NATO. For Russia that would be the kiss of death. Most of the infrastructure linking Russia with Europe – from pipelines to railway lines and high-voltage cables – is located in Ukraine. Industry and agriculture in both countries are closely interlinked. There are more Russians living in eastern Ukraine than anywhere else in the world outside Russia. The Russian Black Sea fleet is stationed in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol because there are no reasonable alternatives. Ukraine stretches so far into southern Russia that a hostile power in the country could pose a threat to Moscow. Moreover, the country stretches so far eastwards that an antagonistic government there could even threaten Russia’s connections with the Caucasus. In a nutshell, if Ukraine slips out of Russia’s sphere of influence Russia will be forced completely onto the defensive in strategic terms. Vice versa, if Russia regains control in Kiev, the country could set itself up as a regional – and perhaps even a global – power.”5 It was to obviate such a scenario that Washington engaged in a further round of frenzied activity shortly before the end of U.S. President George W. Bush’s period in office. This activity was aimed at advancing Ukraine’s future membership of NATO. Martin Luther’s words to the effect that “Riding through a fire is easy on someone else’s arse” might perhaps have flashed through the mind of the then U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, as she walked up with Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Volodymyr Ohryzko, to sign the United States-Ukraine Charta on Strategic Partnership on 19 December 2008. Rice said: “The United States supports Ukraine’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures. And in that regard, I want to assure you that the declaration at Bucharest which foresees that Ukraine will be a member of NATO when it can meet those standards is very much at the center of our policy.” The Ukrainian Foreign Minister set great store by a strengthening of the presence of the United States in Ukraine, in particular through a diplomatic mission on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea.6

In addition to a programme of enhanced security cooperation intended to strengthen Ukraine’s candidacy for NATO membership, agreement was reached on close collaboration on energy issues. It was resolved inter alia that “In recognition of the importance of a well functioning energy sector, the parties intend to work closely together on rehabilitating and modernizing the capacity of Ukraine’s gas transit infrastructure.”7 This Charter on Strategic Partnership was signed against the backdrop of the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia. Given Ukraine’s failure to pay its debts and the lack of any new agreement on deliveries of gas to Ukraine, supplies of Russian gas to Ukraine were stopped as of 1 January 2009. Within a few days the dispute began to have an effect on energy supplies throughout Europe. On 6 January 2009, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia reported that deliveries through the Ukrainian transit pipelines had come to a halt. Supplies to Austria fell by 90%. There are a number of indications that Ukraine’s actions can only be explained by reference to the support it received from the U.S.A. That was the Russian view too: “The Russian gas company Gazprom has pinned responsibility for the gas dispute with Ukraine on the U.S.A. Gazprom declared on Tuesday that Ukraine’s actions are being directed by the U.S. government. Despite the deployment of EU observers the Ukraine is again removing gas from the transit pipelines. Russia is therefore unable to deliver supplies to the EU countries. Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Russian energy giant, has accused the U.S.A. of fuelling the conflict.”8

In the case of both Georgia and Ukraine there is a close link between the gas dispute and support for their admission to NATO. In April 2008 the Bertelsmann Foundation concluded that Ukraine and Georgia were already closely integrated into “NATO’s working processes”. “Ever since it was founded in 1994, both countries have been part of the Partnership for Peace programme of the North Atlantic Alliance which is intended to promote individual cooperation between NATO and non-NATO countries. Cooperation has subsequently been extended. […] In their bilateral cooperation agreements with NATO both countries see far-reaching domestic reforms as a means of moving closer to the defence alliance. Such reforms principally concern the consolidation of internal democratic structures, but priority is also given to the fight against global terrorism and support for the operations and missions of the North Atlantic Alliance. The latter was one reason why U.S. President George W. Bush emphasized his efforts to have Ukraine and Georgia included in the Membership Action Plan. The progress made in integration into NATO’s defence structures puts into perspective the question that arose at the Bucharest summit about the steps Ukraine and Georgia will take after the provisional ‘no’ to their admission to the Membership Action Plan. Their path will inevitably take them into NATO.“9

Germany is playing a double role here. On the one hand it has joined France in rejecting an accelerated accession procedure for Ukraine, which the U.S.A. favoured; on the other hand it is playing a risky game by not placing any obstacles in the path of fundamental approval of Ukraine’s accession to NATO. The German Foreign Office has itself provided an apt description of this double role: “At the NATO summit in Bucharest in April 2008 Ukraine was in principle given the prospect of membership (‘We agreed today that these countries (i.e. Ukraine and Georgia) will become members of NATO’). Ukraine was not granted a Membership Action Plan (MAP); instead, a comprehensive review process was initiated.”10 This granting of prospective membership to Ukraine for the first time, combined with Georgia’s aggression shortly afterwards against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, proved the last straw for Moscow.

Georgia: a geopolitical prize

A look at the map quickly makes it clear why the Southern Caucasus is so important. Georgia provides the only opportunity of supplying Europe with gas and oil from the resource-rich countries of Central Asia and of transporting goods and products to Europe by land from China and Kazakhstan. The Nabucco pipeline project is intended to help reduce Europe’s “dependence” on Russian gas imports, which currently account for 40% of its supplies and are expected to climb to even higher levels. According to the European press service EurActiv, “The US has long been pushing for the construction of oil and natural gas pipelines from the Caspian basin that would bypass Russia, especially via Georgia.”11 The project is a top priority for the European Union, too. During his period as representative of the EU Council President in 2006 the Austrian Minister of Economics Martin Bartenstein said: “[The] Nabucco pipeline is Europe’s most important energy project.”12

For both the EU Member States and the NATO countries Georgia provides the geographical terrain that is essential to cutting Russia off from the purchasers of its energy exports. Russia’s countermeasures include three pipeline projects – Nord Stream (Baltic Sea pipeline), South Stream (Russian-Italian gas pipeline through the Black Sea via Varna in Bulgaria) and Blue Stream (from Russia through the Black Sea into Turkey) – as well as the building of direct energy lines to western and southern Europe to ensure the unobstructed export of energy free from any checks or controls by former Eastern Bloc states very favourably disposed to the U.S.A. This was why the U.S.A., in particular, played the Georgian card in the hope of containing Russia’s political influence in Europe and preventing its rise to the status of an industrial power.

Western support for the war

Germany continues to play a significant part in the arming of Georgia. The Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) mostly train Georgian officers as part of the general staff training course which includes participants from other countries. Over the past few years the Bundeswehr has been host to a steady stream of high-ranking military delegations from Georgia. In addition, G 36 rifles manufactured by Heckler & Koch have been delivered to Georgia. The bulk of the training has been carried out by the U.S.A., however. The U.S. Army has trained Georgian soldiers “to bring the armed forces of Georgia, a loyal ally of Washington, up to NATO standards as an outpost in the Caucasus.”13 In 2006 alone, says the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the U.S.A. supported Georgia to the tune of 80 million U.S. dollars, 13 million of which went on the payment of “military supplies and services” as well as the training of soldiers. In addition the U.S.A. has helped Georgia by regularly modernising its fleet and delivering helicopters free of charge.14 The considerable extent of U.S. military assistance, which has “enabled the Pentagon to overhaul Georgia’s forces from bottom to top”, is described by the New York Times as follows: “At senior levels, the United States helped rewrite Georgian military doctrine and train its commanders and staff officers. At the squad level, American marines and soldiers trained Georgian soldiers in the fundamentals of battle.”15
All told, therefore, the Georgian armed forces have over five infantry brigades each numbering 2,000 men. In addition there are the reservist units whose level of training is far inferior. The Georgian government talks officially of 37,000 soldiers and 100,000 reservists. Since Mikhail Saakashvili took office, Georgia’s military spending has increased significantly: “In 2003 it amounted to 52 million lari (24 million U.S. dollars), whereas in 2006 that figure had tripled to 139 million lari (78 million U.S. dollars). Real expenditure is much higher, however. Anyone liable to be called up for military service, for example, can buy themselves out of the army – four-fifths of the money goes straight to the ministry.”16

There is also brisk cooperation between Georgia and NATO. In July 2008, a joint manoeuvre was held as part of the Partnership for Peace Programme in which a total of 1,630 military personnel, including 1,000 Americans and 600 Georgians, took part.17 In addition, the Georgian army has been – and still is – prominently involved in the war in Iraq, which is in contravention of international law, as well as in Afghanistan and Kosovo. In 2008, Georgia had 2,000 solders in Iraq, the third-largest contingent of the “Coalition of the Willing”. However, after the Georgian army had been repulsed in South Ossetia in August 2008, the U.S. Air Force flew the Georgian units stationed in Iraq back to the home front to provide help while the fighting was still in progress. Given the massive campaign undertaken by the U.S.A. and its allies to build up the country’s military, it is barely credible that, while the U.S.A. might not actually have given the green light, it was not fully informed of the pending attack and subsequently kept silent about it.

At any rate, the Russians are certain that the attack took place with support from Washington. The Russian ambassador to NATO, Dimitri Rogozin, made a statement to the effect that Saakashvili agreed the attack with his “backers”. It is clear to whom he was referring.18 Vladimir Vasilyev, Chairman of the Duma Security Committee, summed up the Russian point of view as follows: “The longer the matter goes on, the better the world will come to understand that Georgia would never have been capable of it [the attack on South Ossetia] without the United States”.19 In an interview for the German TV station ARD the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made his views of the U.S.A.’s behaviour perfectly clear: “One cannot help thinking that the American leadership knew of the planned action and, indeed, participated in it […] in order to organise a small-scale but successful war. And, if things went wrong, to force Russia into the role of the enemy.”20

Russia’s counter-attack

It is, indeed, hard to believe that the Georgian attack took place without any prior consultation with the U.S.A. Yet it must have been clear to the U.S. government that the Georgian army would be crushed in battle, which was precisely what happened. The question arises, therefore, as to Washington’s motives. Did it simply miscalculate in assuming that Russia would quietly accept the Georgian advance? It is hard to imagine but conceivable nonetheless. The other explanation is that the primary objective was to stir up a conflict with Russia so as to make the European Union toe an even more anti-Russian line and that Saakashvili came in handy here in the role of useful idiot, albeit at the expense of the people in the region. The matter cannot be clarified with any degree of certainty, although the latter explanation would appear more plausible.

At all events, the calculation backfired, because Russia seized the opportunity provided by the Georgian attack to improve its own position in the Caucasus. It is also very hard to imagine that Moscow was not informed of Georgia’s invasion plans. It was evidently well prepared for such an eventuality. In July, 8,000 Russian soldiers carried out an exercise simulating the repulsion of a Georgian attack. That might also explain why the Georgian troops were halted within 24 hours and the Russian troops gained the upper hand relatively quickly. Hence to describe Georgia’s war of aggression as the result of President Saakashvili stumbling into a Russian trap is not very convincing. Whether the Russians were well prepared or not, the fact of the matter is that Georgia engaged in a war of aggression.

In the course of the conflict Russia succeeded in shattering confidence in Georgia’s reliability as a transit country for future Caspian energy supplies. Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili himself said that “one of the main reasons for the Russian attack was that Georgia already has the Baku-Tblissi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC), which has been laid one metre underground from end to end. This is intended to circumvent Russia.”21 That suspicion is not as mistaken as it might seem. After all, the opening of the BTC pipeline in May 2006, over which Washington and Moscow had wrangled bitterly for almost a decade, was one of the biggest geopolitical successes in the U.S.A.’s plans to roll back Russian influence in the region. “The Georgian security adviser, Alexander Lomaia, says that the Russians dropped six bombs but failed to hit the pipeline. If that is true, it would indicate that Russia’s military action was conducted in pursuit of other, more far-reaching strategic goals than merely preventing a humanitarian crisis in South Ossetia.”22

The Nabucco project was also dealt a heavy blow. According to Ed Chow from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, “Russia has raised serious doubts in the minds of Western lenders and investors […] as to whether a pipeline through Georgia is safe from attacks or beyond the control of the Kremlin.”23 Nevertheless, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs attempted to give an assurance that the EU was sticking to its plan to build the Nabucco pipeline through Georgia despite the Caucasus conflict: “This infrastructure is needed”, Piebalgs said.24

For the first time since the end of the (old) Cold War Russia has thus ended a Western attempt at expansion by military means. That alone is sufficient to underline the dimensions of the Russian-Georgian war. At the same time the invasion of Georgia is a clear signal to the West that in future Russia will once again have to be taken into account in international power politics. A Strategic Forecast analysis says: “Russia has demonstrated three things with its operation in South Ossetia. Firstly, its army can carry out successful operations, which foreign observers have doubted. Secondly, the Russians can defeat forces trained by U.S. military instructors. Thirdly, Russia has shown that the U.S.A. and NATO are not in a position that would enable them to intervene militarily in this conflict.”25

Astonishing one-sidedness

It is hardly surprising that the Russian response to the Georgian invasion was fiercely criticised by the U.S., which almost unreservedly took Georgia’s side. Zbigniew Brzezinski was vociferous in his response, comparing Putin’s actions with those of Hitler. He went on to say that Moscow’s behaviour “can lead to exclusion and economic and financial sanctions. If Russia continues down this road it must ultimately be isolated within the community of states.”26
The European Union adopted an equally one-sided stance: “The European Council is gravely concerned by the open conflict which has broken out in Georgia, by the resulting violence and by the disproportionate reaction of Russia.”27 These were the words used by the European heads of state and government on 1 September in commenting on the events in the Caucasus. They failed to mention, let alone criticise, the fact that Georgia’s aggression was clearly what had unleashed the war. The statement continues by severely criticising Russia alone. Thus the heads of state and government “strongly condemn Russia’s unilateral decision to recognise the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.” In stark contrast to the policy of recognizing Kosovo that was pursued by the vast majority of EU Member States, the European Council “recalls that a peaceful and lasting solution to the conflict in Georgia must be based on full respect for the principles of independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity recognised by international law, the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and United Nations Security Council resolutions.”27

There were occasional vehement demands for even more drastic action against Russia. The Chairman of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (EPP), advocated an EU position that is “tougher than that of NATO.”28 The fact that the hardliners were not able to have their way entirely has to do with the specific constellation of interests that have made this appear inopportune, particularly from a German perspective. On the one hand there is a desire to show Moscow who is in charge in Europe but, on the other, there is a wish not to spoil things completely with Russia, because business there is simply too profitable.29 Nevertheless, Germany is in almost full accord with NATO’s escalation policy.

(Energy) NATO is put into position

In November 2006 U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, a leading NATO strategist, literally went on the offensive. On the fringes of the NATO summit in Riga he criticised Moscow for its attempts to use oil as a “weapon” against the West and proposed the setting up of an “Energy NATO”. The underlying idea is that in future NATO should treat any interruption of oil and gas supplies as it would a military attack (see article by Tobias Pflüger).

In January 2008, five high-ranking NATO generals published a position paper that was specifically introduced into the debate in the form of a catalogue of requirements for the forthcoming updating of NATO’s strategic concept, the idea being that it could serve as a blueprint for the NATO summit on 3/4 April 2009: “ There will be an increase in global competition for scarce resources, and this will certainly be the case for fossil fuel, which will swell the possibility of suppliers abusing their position and their leverage.. […]Dependency on oil and gas is a vulnerability that some governments will seek to exploit – the Gazprom crisis demonstrated how easily demand can be manipulated. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is – and is likely to remain – a mechanism for keeping the price of oil artificially high, and recently Russia and the United Arab Emirates have been exploring the idea of setting up a ‘Gas OPEC’. […] For this reason, it might well be worth considering using NATO as an instrument of energy security.“30

Shortly afterwards, in June 2008, Richard Lugar, who for a time was under discussion as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State for Defense, repeated his threats against Russia at a hearing of the Senate and vigorously advocated the building of the Nabucco pipeline.31 At the same hearing the new U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden expressly praised Lugar’s work on energy policy and emphasised the importance of the conflicts in the Caspian region: “The stakes involve hundreds of billions of dollars in oil and infrastructure, the resurgence of Russia, and the energy security of Europe.. […] Russians love chess. Our strategic response on the chess board of Central Asia must be to establish a presence on parts of the board they do not yet control. That means laying down new pipelines that add alternatives […] to the monopoly Russia has enjoyed.”32

Biden is therefore likely to have welcomed one of the last major security policy initiatives launched by the Bush administration which aimed at drawing Georgia further into the Western orbit by means of a joint declaration on partnership: “The United States and Georgia officially became “strategic partners” under a charter signed by the two governments on January 9 [2009]. […] Few details have been publicized about the charter, which was signed four months after Georgia’s disastrous war with Russia. It has been widely reported, however, that the Georgian pact resembles a strategic partnership charter signed by the United States and Ukraine in December.”33 Like the United States-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership the agreement with Georgia is likely to comprise intensified military cooperation and measures to expedite Ukraine’s membership of NATO. On 15 September 2008 NATO resolved to set up a commission to deepen relations with Georgia. This is intended “to coordinate Alliance efforts to assist Georgia in recovering from the recent conflict”.34

Cold War as a self-fulfilling prophecy

The aim of the policy pursued by the U.S.A. in Ukraine and Georgia is to wage a new Cold War against Russia. Russia is to be challenged by a policy of pinpricks involving “colourful revolutions”, energy blockades, NATO expansion and the stationing of missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. By disrupting economic relations with Western Europe Washington aims to contain Russia’s global political influence and thwart its advance as a new industrial power. Should this scenario turn out to be a success, it would simultaneously ensure that the NATO allies in Western Europe are tied into a joint strategy of escalation and have to become even more heavily involved in projects designed to secure energy supplies.
Since this strategy has thus far proved successful and it cannot, unfortunately, be assumed that there will be a move away from a policy of U.S. confrontation under President Obama, there is a renewed threat of bloc confrontation. At the height of the Georgian war Russian President Dmitri Medvedev sent out a clear message to the West: “We are not afraid of anything, not even the prospect of a Cold War.”35 The anti-war movement will have to adjust to the realities of the New Cold War. The strategy of imperialism pursued by NATO and the EU must be opposed here and now in a calm and collected fashion.

Any lingering doubts about Obama’s status as an abject puppet of Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission ended this morning when the withered mummy of imperialism himself appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe* to campaign for Obama, urged on by his own moronic daughter, Mika Brzezinski, an Obama groupie and sycophant.

Zbigniew, a low-level Polish aristocrat whose life has been devoted to hatred for Russia, lauded Obama for his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq war, saying that he himself was the source of Obama’s arguments back then – thus confirming Obama’s long-term status as his puppet, which probably began in 1981-1983, when Obama was a student at Columbia University, and Zbig was directing the anti-Russian institute.

The aging revanchist showed all the misogynism of his szachta origins with a scurrilous attack on Sen. Clinton as a mere housewife, a Mamie Eisenhower running against charismatic a JFK played by Zbig’s own Manchurian candidate, and as a woman whose foreign policy experience was worth as much as that of Zbig’s own travel agent.

Zbig, who was kept in the closet for many months during the Carter administration because of his hideous Dr. Strangelove persona, portrayed Obama as a peace candidate who wanted to end the Iraq war and usher in peace in the Middle East. Zbig is an infamous Cold War hawk who has managed to re-invent himself in the eyes of some dupes by opposing the Iraq adventure, mainly because it is bad for imperialism.

Zbig did not mention that the reason he wants to downplay certain aspects of US aggression in the Middle East is to free up resources for use in the much bigger and more dangerous adventures which the Trilateral Commission is now directing.

Zbig is the mastermind of the Kosovo secession under KLA terrorist auspices, a gambit against Serbia and Russia to prepare a coming Operation Barbarossa II against Moscow. With the help of his son Mark Brzezinski, another top foreign policy controller of Obama, Zbig is also behind the new Euromissiles crisis involving US ABM installations in Poland. Zbig is the enforcer for the new CIA policy of killing Pakistanis (as “terrorists”) without consulting the government of that country, a nuclear power twice as big as Iran.

Most dangerous of all, Zbig is the obvious mastermind of the massive destabilization of China now ongoing, starting with the CIA/MI-6 Tibet insurrection, which has placed the US on a collision course with China, a superpower with 1.4 billion people and thermonuclear weapons which can strike US cities, a far cry from the helpless and defenseless targets preferred by the neocons. It is an open secret that Zbig intends to attempt a color revolution or CIA people power coup in China under the cover of the Beijing Olympics later this year. He may also make the Taiwan crisis explode. The dangers of these lunatic policies are infinitely worse than anything that could ever come out of the Middle East.

Senator Jay Rockefeller and Trilateral/BIlderberger boss Joseph Nye are also actively campaigning for Obama. Nye is the theoretician of “soft power,” a new form of imperialist aggression based on economic warfare, subversion, deception, and people power coups. They want Obama to mobilize soft power to give a face lift to US imnperialism.

Brzezinski’s goal is confrontation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the main world center for resistance to US-UK global domination.

Anti-war activists are still fixated on Iran, but not Brzezinski is not – his target is China, TWENTY times bigger than Iran, with ICBMs ready to launch, followed by Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power. Such confused activists need to focus on stopping the next war – the final global showdown with Pakistan, China, and Russia. That means rejecting Brzezinski’s puppet candidate Obama.

Van Genderen said that it is unlikely that there was planned maintenance occurring simultaneously on the three ‘primary’ radar systems. One explanation could be that there was a lack of spare parts to keep them running. Netherlands has received information from Ukraine and Russia. Both countries have made video recordings available of the radar screens. However, the raw data of the primary radar data was not made available. Russia has stated that it was not transferred because it was not saved, however, the three Ukrainian systems in the area stood out. According to Van Genderen, with closer examination of the raw data from the primary radar the chances would be greater of determining where the missile came from.

Survivors have therefore written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. They ask him, including whether he is willing to do everything to recover radar and satellite images. The families of deceased passengers also previously wrote letters to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the US Secretary of State John Kerry and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Expert of the Dutch Aerospace Centre, Michel Peters, claiming Friday that the damage to the plane can simply be caused by a BUK missile. ” It is particularly important in the light of the warhead. ”

The Lower House is conducting talks all day with experts about MH17. These include the decision on the air routes above conflict, as well as radar and satellite data in the MH17 case and the future prosecution and trial of the perpetrators. According to experts, airlines and services should be required to share information about the safety of flights. Bart de Vries, head of Flight Operations for KLM, announced that the airline needs good information on the safety of air routes. Each society would, he should have a system to receive this information and to respond to them. Intelligence agencies now share information with airlines, but are not obliged to. KLM had in his own words had no information about the danger over eastern Ukraine, where flight MH17 ended by a rocket attack.

We had in the first 48 hours can do things differently, but I would surround myself so again with the same group of people

Dick Schoof, National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security
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The role of the Dutch government is discussed. To set aviation lawyer Arthur Flieger that the Netherlands may simply prohibit airlines to fly over dangerous areas. Then there is clarity for everyone, and does not need any airline itself weigh the risks. Réne Torenvlied, professor of public management at the University of Twente, says that the initial response to the disaster was difficult. Survivors also were dissatisfied with the actions of the government. The government wants above all to learn from the mistakes. Until today there is aftercare. National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security, Dick Schoof: ,, We were in the first 48 hours can do things differently, but I would so again surround with the same group of people. ”

Additional new MH-17 news: From Google translate. A minimum of four radar systems should have images of MH17 disaster

By Michael van der Galien January 22, 2016

Professor and radar expert Piet van Genderen, TU Delft, says that at least four radars should have picked up the images of flight MH17 being downed.

That is a remarkable statement because it proves the government has no radar images and also has not been able to get their hands on them. During a hearing in the House, Van Genderen said the following:

“The primary radar images of these four facilities are the most important because the chances are that they picked up the image of the BUK missile and it should be seen. Also, the disintegration of the aircraft is on these images, it should almost certainly be noticeable.”

This involves three radar stations in Ukraine and one in Russia. All four facilities would see what brought down the plane. These countries, however, deny they have these images.

Van Genderen trust it for a penny:

“That these facilities were all out of operation or undergoing maintenance as Ukraine and Russia claim is not credible.”

Satellite Expert Marco Langbroek adds that he finds it strange that the government is doing nothing to retrieve the satellite imagery.

“Three of these satellites covered Ukraine at the time of the crash. It seems to me that to see justice served there is every interest to have this information. Indeed, the evidence can thus be substantiated. ”

And now it comes: Minister Ard van der Steur still maintains that he does not need more images of the flight. He states this while every expert says that these images are a) in existence and b) will prove conclusively who shot the aircraft down.

New MH-17 news: From Google translate: Four radars were active for MH17 ‘

by Paul Eldering and Jolanda van der Graaf

THE HAGUE –

The shootdown of down MH17 was imaged by at least four radars in the vicinity said Professor and radar expert Piet van Genderen at TU Delft during a hearing in the Parliament. “The primary radar images of these four facilities are the most important because the chances are that the they picked up a BUK missile and it should be seen. Also, the disintegration of the aircraft is on these images, it should be almost certainly noticeable. ”

It involves three Ukrainian systems – one in the Lugansk airport and two long-range radar in the vicinity – and a fourth Russian radar at Rostov.

“That all these facilities were all not in operation or under maintenance as Ukraine and Russia claim is not credible,” said the professor.

Like Van Genderen, satellite expert Marco Langbroek believes that the images are crucial to the criminal investigation as to who the perpetrators are. According to Langbroek there must exist a large number of satellite images of the disaster. This includes the so-called Space Based Infrared Systems, the top-secret radar systems of the Americans. “Three of these satellites covered Ukraine at the time of the crash,” said Langbroek. “It seems to me that justice has every interest to have this information. Indeed, the evidence can thus be substantiated.”

According to Minister Van der Steur of Security and Justice, the Public Prosecutor’s has no need for additional radar and satellite images. However, he said that if later it is different, “the government will do its utmost to make available relevant information to the Public Prosecution for the criminal investigation.” Despite the letter of Van der Steur, survivors, experts and also have MPs, still have serious doubts about the events surrounding the radar and satellite imagery.

Note that in late 2015, the entire Dutch press was lit up with these stories about Ukraine not supplying the MH17 radar data and claiming all facilities were undergoing maintenance at the time. It should also be considered as to why the entire US, UK, Canadian and Australian media chose to completely ignore this important new revelation which didn’t even feature in Google search results.

Newly released Russian MoD video shows that the White Helmet HQ in Aleppo is abandoned and strewn with al-Nusra Front items. Hence providing further proof that the White Helmets are aligned with terror groups. The big question now is “where did the $100 million in US and UK funding disappear to?” The video below provides conclusive evidence that the White Helmets are no longer in Aleppo and have abandoned the small outpost that they were using there. It also shows that the ‘hospitals’ that the White Helmets claimed were destroyed are actually still intact, thus proving that they were feeding the US and western media false stories from the ‘Aleppo Media Center’ they had created with US and UK seed money.

The REAL Syria Civil Defence
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Let us now focus upon the very real heroes inside Syria, the real Syria Civil Defence that have been usurped by the NATO mountebank White Helmets who also call themselves the “Syria Civil Defence” – a mere simulacra of the REAL Syria Civil Defence who have been saving lives in Syria, and further afield for decades.

The REAL Syria Civil Defence was established as an organisation, in 1953, some 63 years before the White Helmets were a glimmer in the eyes of CIA and MI6 operatives.
The REAL Syria Civil Defence is a founding member of the ICDO (International Civil Defence Organisation). Other ICDO partners include the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Secretarian of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations of Geneva (UNOG), Red Cross and the Red Crescent.

To our knowledge and according to the Head Quarters of the REAL Syria Civil Defence in Damascus, the White Helmets are NOT a member of the ICDO. The REAL Syria Civil Defence have received awards for their participation in the training of other member states in USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) and for their contributions to the Civil Defence community, prior to the NATO dirty war on Syria that began in earnest, in 2011.

More from Vanessa at link above…..

The main battlefront of the Syrian war now moves on to Idlib where Syrian and Russian forces can more easily contain and wipe out the terrorist threat.

Saudi Arabia’s dream of becoming the dominant Arab and Muslim power in the world has gone down in flames. Saudi Arabia’s military pressure on Assad served only to make him seek more help from Russia, precipitating intervention which the US was not prepared to oppose

Patrick Cockburn 6 January 2017

As recently as two years ago, Saudi Arabia’s half century-long effort to establish itself as the main power among Arab and Islamic states looked as if it was succeeding. A US State Department paper sent by former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in 2014 and published by Wikileaks spoke of the Saudis and Qataris as rivals competing “to dominate the Sunni world”.

A year later in December 2015, the German foreign intelligence service BND was so worried about the growing influence of Saudi Arabia that it took the extraordinary step of producing a memo, saying that “the previous cautious diplomatic stance of older leading members of the royal family is being replaced by an impulsive policy of intervention”.

An embarrassed German government forced the BND to recant, but over the last year its fears about the destabilising impact of more aggressive Saudi policies were more than fulfilled. What it did not foresee was the speed with which Saudi Arabia would see its high ambitions defeated or frustrated on almost every front. But in the last year Saudi Arabia has seen its allies in Syrian civil war lose their last big urban centre in east Aleppo. Here, at least, Saudi intervention was indirect but in Yemen direct engagement of the vastly expensive Saudi military machine has failed to produce a victory. Instead of Iranian influence being curtailed by a more energetic Saudi policy, the exact opposite has happened. In the last OPEC meeting, the Saudis agreed to cut crude production while Iran raised output, something Riyadh had said it would always reject.

In the US, the final guarantor of the continued rule of the House of Saud, President Obama allowed himself to be quoted as complaining about the convention in Washington of treating Saudi Arabia as a friend and ally. At a popular level, there is growing hostility to Saudi Arabia reflected in the near unanimous vote in Congress to allow families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government as bearing responsibility for the attack. Under the mercurial guidance of Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the most powerful figure in Saudi decision making, Saudi foreign policy became more militaristic and nationalistic after his 80 year old father Salman became king on 23 January 2015. Saudi military intervention in Yemen followed, as did increased Saudi assistance to a rebel alliance in Syria in which the most powerful fighting force was Jabhat al-Nusra, formerly the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda.